J.W. Burleson photo / Boquillas del Carmen, Coah.

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We own a 1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15 in Maine and a 1986 Chevrolet Custom Deluxe 10 in West Texas. Also a pair of 1997 Volvo 850 wagons. Average age in the fleet is 28 years--we're recycling. I've published 3 novels: THE LAW OF DREAMS (2006), THE O'BRIENS (2012), and CARRY ME (2016). Also 2 short story collections: NIGHT DRIVING(1987) and TRAVELLING LIGHT (2013). More of my literary life is at www.peterbehrens.org I was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-13. I'm an adjunct professor at Colorado College and in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. In 2015-16 I was a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Autoliterate office is in Car Talk Plaza in Harvard Square, 2 floors above Dewey Cheatem & Howe. SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUTOLITERATE DAILY EMAIL by hitting the button to the right.

Friday, December 11, 2020

Charles Custer, the American Road Trip and the '49 Ford




You know on AL there is nothing that interests us more than the extraordinariness of the ordinary. That's why we feel we've stumbled on treasure with these Charles Custer photographs, taken by a Chicago lawyer on a series of road trips in the early 1950s. Custer used an Agfa box camera. We heard of the work  thanks to the photographer Bill Burleson, who learned of them from Jason Burlingame.You can learn more about Custer and his photographs here..







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  1. UnknownDecember 12, 2020 at 9:57 AM

    Remarkable record bringing to my mind memories of sitting on soda shop stools, wishing for cookies on the store shelves and dreaming of buying my mother a washing machine. The tall long narrow stores in New Mexico are very similar to the buildings that line the RR track on E. El Paso in Marfa. Thanks for posting these stunning photographs. Custer, the photographer, is going to have an impact.

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